Question 8411 — French people abroad

Summary

Mr. Karim Ben Cheikh draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, responsible for foreign trade, attractiveness and French people living abroad, to the fact that the advisors of French people living abroad and the consular administration examined the school scholarship application files of fellow citizens without knowing the limiting envelopes for each position. The MP is concerned about the partial information of consular elected officials and the administration in the context of the 2023 exercise of the consular scholarship councils and asks what is the reason for the change in methodology. He notes that the exercise of consular scholarship councils was held in a context where tuition fees have increased in many educational establishments abroad (+ 8% for directly managed establishments and + 6% in average in the rest of the network). The MP recalls that during the budgetary discussion at the time of the adoption of the finance law for 2023, the majority, as well as the Government, had estimated that the budgetary envelope dedicated to school scholarships, 104.4 million euros, was satisfactory to cover the needs of scholarship families in a global economic context marked by inflation and a currency effect. unfavorable euro/dollar. The MP asks whether this estimate is still considered relevant. If this were not the case, he asked how the ministry intends to cover the needs of families as it has committed to doing and whether the Agency for French Education Abroad will be called upon to use its reserves to finance school scholarships. The MP also underlines that it is necessary to be vigilant to ensure that the quotas scholarships decided by consular council are not unjustifiably reduced for budgetary reasons and notes that certain scholarship families have already left the French education system abroad because they are unable to pay the remainder. He asks her for her position on this subject.

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